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To make our best trip to Egypt, we need knowledge from as many sources as we can get, and most likely in a fun and easy way.
In here, we make friends, share our experience, share laughs & thoughts, and just having fun even before we travel.
The most important is that we show respect by all of us towards ourselves, and others.
This is our home, we just keep it clean and tidy, and to do it, we follow these guidelines:
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We are not allowed to use objectionable words, or any kind of insults.
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We are united by our love to Egypt, and Egypt travelers, so we try our best to keep the issue, however , we made a lot of friends on this forum.
3- Postings should be in English language
We do not post in any other language, the community language is English
Our community is divided into two forums, one forum is for questions & suggestions by travelers and for travelers to share experience, while the other forum is made specially for everybody to tell us about his travel business.
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We believe the best way is to get in touch with local people and experts before you travel to a certain place (in Egypt).
Either you traveled Egypt or not yet, you are welcome to post to share your experience if you are the first case, or ask questions if you are the second case.]]>EgyptFri, 26 Apr 2013 19:57:45 +0000Desert Safari in Fayyoum Oasis - by: Angelahttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/1142-desert-safari-in-fayyoum-oasis/1322
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/1142-desert-safari-in-fayyoum-oasis/1322EgyptWed, 22 Mar 2017 02:26:58 +0000Cairo Layover Tour - by: Angelahttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/1136-cairo-layover-tour/1320
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/1136-cairo-layover-tour/1320EgyptThu, 09 Feb 2017 13:42:42 +0000Is it safe to travel Egypt at this time? - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/371-is-it-safe-to-travel-egypt-at-this-time/1272
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/371-is-it-safe-to-travel-egypt-at-this-time/1272EgyptWed, 28 Oct 2015 12:55:03 +0000Best time to travel Egypt - by: owjdedoyechttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/370-best-time-to-travel-egypt/1271
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http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/374-im-happy-i-finally-signed-up/625EgyptThu, 04 Jun 2015 16:41:20 +0000visiting Egypt: weather, guide, and Egyptian food! - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/373-visiting-egypt-weather-guide-and-egyptian-food/563
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The tour guide is Egyptian with a certificate from the ministry of tourism, speaks your language and expert in Egyptology.
Egyptian food is tasty and clean, just avoid fresh vegetables and fruits as much as possible and eat cocked food.]]>EgyptSun, 18 Jan 2015 13:00:32 +0000Pooja and Egypt Trip - by: LaylaWalidahhttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/40-pooja-and-egypt-trip/555
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While going through your post I got to know that you enjoyed a lot there. Really Egypt is a very nice place to spend the vacation trip and many more things to see. Egypt is my one of the favorite place. Egypt Nile Cruise is one of the most attractive places in the world.]]>EgyptFri, 10 Oct 2014 02:38:52 +0000Aloha - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/369-aloha/544
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/369-aloha/544EgyptThu, 21 Aug 2014 16:35:36 +0000Booking a Nile cruise! - by: Angelahttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/345-booking-a-nile-cruise/541
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/345-booking-a-nile-cruise/541EgyptThu, 24 Jul 2014 02:20:05 +0000Egypt Travel Tips - by: LaylaWalidahhttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/1-egypt-travel-tips/538
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www.exploregypt.net
) Each person should visit Egypt once in a lifetime. Last year in December I went there really its a very beautiful place.]]>EgyptTue, 15 Jul 2014 07:11:37 +0000Egyptair layover tours - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/368-egyptair-layover-tours/537
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They will let you in the country without an entry visa after taking your passport from you, and then your time (during tours) will be spent in tourist traps, you will be taken to horse stables by the pyramids to spend more than 200$ USD by force, and then taken again to perfumes shop where they take 75% commission of the money you pay on fake perfumes, and then you will be taken to souvenirs shop to play the same silly trick again with you, and at the end of the tour you will be totally broken! Please please please avoid tours with Egyptair, they are also called
Karnak tours
or
Misr travel
.]]>EgyptFri, 11 Jul 2014 00:56:51 +0000Vacations in Egypt - by: alanshttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/61-vacations-in-egypt/521
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www.orientaltoursegypt.com
).]]>EgyptThu, 15 May 2014 08:58:46 +0000Cairo Airport Layover Pyramids - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/342-cairo-airport-layover-pyramids/497
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For more details please visit:
www.egyptfuntours.com/day-tours-703/cairo-stopover
]]>EgyptThu, 20 Jun 2013 13:30:05 +0000How a honeymoon travel package can pamper you ? - by: kylewilson160http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/245-how-a-honeymoon-travel-package-can-pamper-you/493
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I Read your post. Some facts in your post is very true. I am also a travel Lover person. I face these type of problems many more. They have hidden condition. they ruined you after. But some tour packages are good and genuine. I enplane in a scenario i went in India for my vacation., there are many travel agents and many more. i spend there my vacation in very cheap package with high accommodation. I have lots of sweet memories there. That
vacation
awesome to me.]]>EgyptSat, 08 Jun 2013 11:54:19 +0000Cairo layover tour. Short stopover. - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/334-cairo-layover-tour-short-stopover/487
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Make sure you include just one place to see and preferablely the closest to the airport like Ancient Cairo, down town, or islamc Cairo...]]>EgyptWed, 29 May 2013 00:47:55 +00003 night nile cruise from Aswan - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/320-3-night-nile-cruise-from-aswan/474
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Let me explain.... most of the tour operators will tell you that this Nile cruise is not possible on that date as there is no departure on that date!, but we do it with a departure on Friday.
With all the Nile cruise guests get only one day of actual cruising out of 3 nights, a one night is spent in Aswan, and another spent in Luxor, and the last remaining night is spent in between.... When I tell you it is possible to do, I mean spend maximum of two nights at Aswan with possibility to do a trip to Abusimbel, and then spend the last night in Luxor with also only one day of actual cruising.. All thesightseeing and visits are the same...
Regards,
Hamada]]>EgyptSat, 25 May 2013 01:44:37 +0000SAFETY AND SECURITY - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/246-safety-and-security/397
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/246-safety-and-security/397EgyptThu, 28 Mar 2013 04:07:12 +0000Important Notice! - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/239-important-notice/383
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This is one traveler comment from Dec 18 2012:
"I am writing this to let the people who are interested to go to Egypt know that it is totally safe. We never encountered any hassling with regards the political problems. We even went to Tahrir Square as we went to the Egyptian Museum and never encountered anything. The media portrays the situation like a war zone".]]>EgyptWed, 19 Dec 2012 06:35:38 +0000book my international flight to Egypt - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/163-book-my-international-flight-to-egypt/164
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Best
Hamada]]>EgyptThu, 14 Jun 2012 17:02:39 +0000Solo traveler - by: Jackie Leehttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/162-solo-traveler/162
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Square and the due violence? thanks in-advance for your response.]]>EgyptThu, 14 Jun 2012 02:28:24 +0000About Dafety!! - by: louis vuitton speedyhttp://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/72-about-dafety/89
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/72-about-dafety/89EgyptSat, 31 Mar 2012 05:47:50 +0000Bob Cox and The White desert - by: funadmin1http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/39-bob-cox-and-the-white-desert/39
http://egyptfuntours.com/forum/Egypt/39-bob-cox-and-the-white-desert/39My wife and I returned a week ago from a 20 day (Jan 10-30) trip to Egypt.

One of the first things we did (Jan 12-14) was a trip to Bahariya oasis and to the White Desert. After e-mail back-and-forths with about 5 agencies, we settled on Egypt Fun Tours
egyptfuntours.com/
-- mostly because they were pretty responsive and adaptable, and because they were recommended to me in a PM from TripAdvisor user Cora_v.

Conclusion first (so you don't have to read any further): We had a good time, and overall things went pretty well. Our guide, Hani Ahmed, was a pleasant guy whose English is fine (although he has the habit of repeating everything to make sure you understand -- something I sometimes do myself). Besides his guiding services on this trip, he gave us a large number of useful tips for the DIY remainder of our Egypt trip -- what to see in Luxor, what the price of silver jewelry should be, etc. I certainly give them a solid recommendation.

In retrospect, there are things I would have done differently. This paragraph doesn't reflect on Hani or Egypt Fun Tours, but should be taken as ideas for anyone planning a similar trip. Some of the stuff in Bahariya isn't worth seeing (IMHO) -- in particular, I'm thinking of the Temple of Alexander and Gebel Dist (Pyramid Mountain). The Golden Mummies are very worth seeing. The oasis itself is also interesting, being so different from anything here (in the USA). On the way to and from the White Desert, the Crystal "mountain" is barely worth looking at, and the Black Desert isn't much better. Instead, I would spend more time at the White Desert itself -- it would have been great to have time to spend several hours hiking around among the weird stone monoliths. It being in the cool part of the year, daytime heat wasn't an issue.

Back to the trip report: The 4x4 that was used, owned and driven by a Bawiti resident named Sameer, was not exactly in the best shape. The starter motor was pretty cranky -- the truck had to be push started at least twice. And we had 2 tire blowouts on the paved road on the way to the White Desert. These flats cost us at least an hour, since we had to wait for the second spare tire to arrive on another 4x4 that was coming along later than we were (cell phones are handy!). As a result, we only arrived at the White Desert right at sunset -- which was a significant disappointment -- as I said, the more time at the stone toadstools, the better.

The next day, to make it up to us (and more importantly, to try to repair his business relation with Hani), Sameer invited us to lunch at his house in Bahariya. This was interesting, as we got to see a little of how people live there -- the date palm grove and other farming stuff, the houses themselves, and so on. The most amusing thing was that we found out why the truck hadn't been fixed up -- Sameer had left it to his cousin to do, since his second wife in Giza wanted something the day before, so he had gone into Cairo, and the cousin hadn't actually done anything -- which also explained why Sameer was yelling at him when we picked up the truck. The situation also goes to show that in Egypt, when you ask if a man is married, the answer "yes" isn't the end of it -- you have to follow up with "how many wives?" -- for me, I'm used to "are you married?" being a True/False question, not a multiple choice question.

In my opinion, the loss of time in the White Desert was partly compensated for by this view of life in Bawiti that we wouldn't have had otherwise. My wife was angrier at the situation, but she eventually calmed down. And the 2 wives story we'll be telling for a while to come.

I liked Hani, and don't hesitate to recommend him and his organization. As I said, I'd do some things differently, but it's not likely we'll ever go back to the White Desert. I think that they should cut a few things out of the standard oasis tour, and instead organize some kind of home visit to see how people live there -- that was far more interesting than the Temple of Alexander -- it's a different way of life. And include more time at the White Desert itself!

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Use the internet, friends, and people experienced Egypt to get the most information before your visit starts, as most of the travel agencies, international and local, if not all of them are not honest AT ALL with the tourist, they are in a bad need to change the way they think about this business, and the person you trust the most is the local guide who will turn to be their tool to cheat on you.

The local guide will lead you easily to the tourist traps, and will sell you the most expensive optional tours-and believe me or not-even after telling you all this-tour guides in Egypt have their own way to convince you and let you pay whatever they want you to pay..

Tour agencies make a huge amount of money out of it shared with the local guides who are so clever in tour guiding in the terms of the continuous speech and operating your questions not just answering it.

Now, let us get into the Frame, if you are living in a far distance, like let's say that you live in the united states, i would suggest you a tour of at least 10 days in Egypt to get to see Just the must see places, that is to say longer time would be much better for your vacation in Egypt to be able to feel the place and the local people.

For a European a week is still Ideal to make a cultural trip that covers the main attractions of Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan as Europe is so close just to the north of Egypt and they can always easily come back.[/size]]]>EgyptFri, 09 Apr 2010 23:22:04 +0000